Current Affairs The 'incel movement'

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More importantly, the internet has provided the opportunity for others to monetise the opinions and feelings of those people, by feeding them YouTube vids to validate their views, and sit back and let the advertising revenue flow in, which provides a reinforcement mechanism to fringe views.

Who is making money from the incel movement?
 
They should bring pull the plug on the net for a few years .
The young are going off their tits.
When I was growing up nutters normally walked around with a sign and shouted at you as you walked up the game.
Now they have an audience of millions and can group together,
And think thier normal.
Had two conversations this week in work with anti vaccines people who are now convinced the world is flat.

There’s a lot to be said for this. Anyone under 40 believes everything they read on the net and follow it on an hourly basis. Meanwhile us older members go to the pub, discuss real issues with other drunks then forget all about it…..

Facebook and Twitter has radicalised the gammons (those weird looking, pink skinned blokes aged 50+) and conjured them into thinking Brexit was and still is wonderful, that immigrants are coming to take their daughters and that taking the knee is submitting to communism (or some such nonsense)

Anyway, I digress... incels are weird creeps and are now running Afghanistan.
 
What percentage of what age range are incels or classify themselves as such? I presume it's teens to early 20s and not actually that high a percentage.

People actually identify as incels? I mean you're never gonna get laid walking around calling yourself that.

A year or two ago their was a shooting in Toronto by someone I thought others labeled him as an incel, perhaps he thought of himself as one.

Other than that I just always thought it was a lame internet insult like cuck or snowflake.
 
People actually identify as incels? I mean you're never gonna get laid walking around calling yourself that.

A year or two ago their was a shooting in Toronto by someone I thought others labeled him as an incel, perhaps he thought of himself as one.

Other than that I just always thought it was a lame internet insult like cuck or snowflake.
Absolutely this. Not making the connection are they?
 
I don't get modern society at all .
There seems to be a new label every other day, can't keep up.
Personally I don't care what anybody gets up to as long as they are not harming anybody or forcing them to do stuff unwillingly.
I know some of these guys have gone off it, but do the majority just go online and moan about not having any sexual partners
or is there more to it?
Any incels care to enlighten me on the subject
 
I note that certain sections of the UK press are pushing a narrative, post Plymouth shooting, that there is a dangerous 'incel movement'.

Now, personally I find the whole concept of angry internet numpts basically saying "I can't get laid and I can't figure out why" really amusing. However, what's the wider GOT view. Is it a genuine threat? Is a new wave of violent misogyny about to sweep Britain (and elsewhere)? Should we jst round them up into a camp and make them wear t-shirts emblazoned with 'virgin'?


Good research suggests that an imbalance of a population's gender towards male and away from female strongly correlates with interstate conflict (ie: war) involving that population. The qualitative stuff that I've read suggests that the resulting males with no prospects make ideal troops because they feel like they have nothing to live for, and therefore fight like they have nothing to lose.

It's worth pointing out that both China and India are tipped in that direction to the tune of thirty million men or so each.

I'm not aware of anything linking such individuals to civil war, domestic terrorism or anything like that. That said, I'm not current on the literature and the copycat effect is a thing.
 
You can basically replace 'incel' with 'scruffy virgins'. That's all they are. Of course, some of them will be toxic and blame their issues on others but there is no 'incel movement'. It is not an ideology. Subculture is the right term, I think. Birds of a feather, and all that.
In the case of the shooter, perhaps being immersed in an online society where the suggestion of being weird, unlikable, and out of place is so easily accepted and reinforced may have contributed to eventually being pushed to a mental break point, but he surely didn't kill in the name of virgins everywhere.

I think things like this:

only serve to further ostracise other scruffy virgins. Tell someone they're the bogeyman enough times, and eventually they'll act like one. But most of them are just sad, depressed and lonely. They won't go on killing sprees, but they might kill themselves.

The direction some in the media are taking this story isn't good for anyone.
 
Good research suggests that an imbalance of a population's gender towards male and away from female strongly correlates with interstate conflict (ie: war) involving that population. The qualitative stuff that I've read suggests that the resulting males with no prospects make ideal troops because they feel like they have nothing to live for, and therefore fight like they have nothing to lose.

It's worth pointing out that both China and India are tipped in that direction to the tune of thirty million men or so each.

I'm not aware of anything linking such individuals to civil war, domestic terrorism or anything like that. That said, I'm not current on the literature and the copycat effect is a thing.
From what I gathrr dire economic prospects I'm many parts of the North and Midlands of England have a similar effect.
 
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